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Khosrow and Shirin
Persian tragic romance by the Nizami Ganjavi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Shirin Farhad.
Khosrow and Shirin (Persian: خسرو و شیرین) is the title of a famous tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), who also wrote Layla and Majnun. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love of the Sasanian king Khosrow II for the Christian Shirin, who becomes queen of Persia.[1][2][3][4] The essential narrative is a love story of Persian origin which was already well known from the great epico-historical poem the Shahnameh and other Persian writers and popular tales, and other works have the same title.[5]
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Variants of the story were also told under the title Shirin and Farhad (شیرین و فرهاد).